About us

THE TOPMOTIVE GROUP IS EUROPE’S MARKET LEADER IN CATALOG, INFORMATION AND ERP SYSTEMS FOR THE INDEPENDENT AFTERMARKET. FROM THE PARTS INDUSTRY TO THE PARTS WHOLESALERS, ALL THE WAY TO THE REPAIR SHOPS, OUR CLIENT BASE ENCOMPASSES A WIDE SPECTRUM OF THE MARKET

Specialization

Because of our specialization in the independent aftermarket, we can precisely coordinate our products and services to the needs of our clients. This focus is the basis of our leadership in innovation and gives TOPMOTIVE clients a competitive edge, which we continuously expand.

Growth

We value a customer-oriented and sustainable growth, and thanks to our innovative products and services, we continually open up new markets. We started with only 3 people in Bargteheide. Having now grown to more than 200 employees at multiple locations, our goal is to work on our clients’ success. We emphasize a close employee relationship and are proud that they, our clients and our partners are so loyal.

Independence

We are a 100% owner-managed company. Under the TOPMOTIVE umbrella brand, all enterprises in our group are able to act independently and free from any influence of any individual interest groups. This independence is of primary importance to us for a continued successful and expanding partnership with all our clients.

Who are we?

17 different nationalities

< 2% employee fluctuation

8 babies a year

85% meat-eaters

19% women

6 hobby race-drivers

20% lateral entry employees

15% beards

1036,2 years of professional experience

10 Birkenstock advocates

10% know-it-all

100% different

Our Locations

WE ARE STILL AT OUR ORIGINAL HEADQUARTERS IN BARGTEHEIDE SINCE OUR FOUNDING IN 1994. OUR ADDRESS AT CARL-BENZ-WEG 1 IS QUITE SUITABLE; JUST LIKE CARL BENZ, WE ARE ALSO A PIONEER IN OUR INDUSTRY BRANCH. IN ORDER TO SECURE OUR POSITION AS THE NUMBER 1, WE HAVE EXPANDED TO 9 LOCATIONS IN 5 COUNTRIES IN EUROPE, AS WELL AS SOUTH-AMERICA.

Bargteheide

Our headquarters is the engineering and technological heart of the company, and at the same time, our largest location. This is where our software and product development has been taking place from the start. In addition, project management, support, IT and administration of the TOPMOTIVE Group are located in Bargteheide. Due to our growth, we expanded into additional offices in the neighboring town of Hammoor in 2015.

Stuttgart

Since 2007, we have had a sales team in our Stuttgart subsidiary in charge of efficient sales processing. In order to be close to our clients as well as our products, a part of the product development has been located there for several years now as well.

Vienna

At our sales location in Austria, our employees at DVSE Austria support TecCat users, in addition to our Austrian and other European clients.

Brusque

We managed to open up the Brazilian as well as the entire Latin-American market through our joint venture with TOPMOTIVE South America . South-America, already a significant market for the application of TOPMOTIVE products, benefits from our long-term experience in the field. During the last few years, we have adjusted established products to the requirements of Latin-America and built up a team with excellent experience in the local market.

Targu Mures

At DVSE RO a large software development department works closely with our team in Bargteheide. In addition, a part of our product development and testing team is located in Romania.

Wetter

Since 2009, U4 Automotive, our center of excellence for data services and consulting in the truck segment, has been located in the southeast Ruhr area of Germany.

Wuppertal

Our ERP system for spare parts wholesalers is developed and managed by TOPMOTIVE Systems in Wuppertal.

Etten-Leur

Development, data processing, and customer care for the leading parts catalog in the Benelux market takes place at ALDOC-TOPMOTIVE. The cooperation of the teams from Etten-Leur and Bargteheide, both using their local market know-how, leads to synergies, such as the use of a joint database for registration plates, within the TOPMOTIVE Group.

Iphofen

Located in the heart of the Franconian vineyards and not far away from Kitzingen, our team is responsible for wheels, tires, tire pressure and monitoring systems since 2017. The solutions include everything around the wheel and are developed in close cooperation with the teams in Stuttgart and Bargteheide to meet all sales and technical requirements.

Group of companies

THE TOPMOTIVE GROUP OF COMPANIES BY NOW ENCOMPASSES 11 FIRMS AT MULTIPLE LOCATIONS.

DVSE GmbH has been developing innovative catalog and information systems since 1994. Our systems contribute to the spare parts distributors gaining their customers’ loyalty and we, as a strategic partner, see this result confirmed through our clients’ success.

Since 1996, MSDas GmbH has been developing integrated software solutions for repair shops. With a variety of functions and interfaces, they are designed to align precisely with the requirements of the day-to-day operation of a repair shop.

AWDOC GmbH generates electronic labor times. Since 1996, experienced master car mechanics and vehicle engineers have created one of the largest data inventories, which takes into consideration the special requirements of the independent automotive sector.

B-Formance GmbH offers services and products for the parts industry in the automotive and motorbike segments and created the first standardized information system for the free motorbike spare parts market.

TOPMOTIVE Data GmbH primarily offers services and products in the truck sector . With the creation of systems for the vehicle parts identification, we set a new benchmark for parts wholesalers and the parts industry.

ALDOC-TOPMOTIVE is the leader in offering catalogs and data distribution in the Benelux market and has had solid market experience for a number of years. ALDOC has been part of the TOPMOTIVE Group since its acquisition in 2014.

In order to tap into the large market potential in Brazil and Latin America, we became a shareholder of TOPMOTIVE South America LTDA in 2015. With our partner Alfa Holding we manage to combine our solid market knowledge and longstanding technical expertise in the independent aftermarket.

Company History

STARTING WITH THE TECDOC STANDARD, FOLLOWED BY THE DIGITALIZATION OF OUR PARTS CATALOGS, TO ALL-ENCOMPASSING INFORMATION SYSTEMS, WE HAVE LARGELY DEFINED AND CO-DESIGNED THE MARKET UNTIL TODAY.

Founding & TecDoc Standard

TOPMOTIVE’s history began with the founding of DVSE GmbH on April 1, 1994 by Udo Knabe-Paulsen and Michael Konz. With only 3 initial employees at the Bargteheide location near Hamburg, followed by the founding of MSDas GmbH , the cornerstone was laid for today’s success. As a “full service provider” for TecDoc we developed the standard for the independent aftermarket and continue to be proud of it. Our partnership with TecDoc, which endures to be an important characteristic of our company philosophy to this day, depicts our strategic direction in regards to sustainability and long-term cooperation.

Development of Parts Catalogs

As early as 1994, during the Automechanika trade fair, we showed the first prototype of a TecDoc catalog, which was made available on April 1, 1995. In 1995 already, the first distributor catalog was created for Coparts Germany, which forms the basis of our strategic company alignment to this day; i.e. working with and for the parts trade. This was followed in 1997 with the first international catalog for NBK (Norway), and in 1999 our cooperation with ATR and its shareholders at that time: Stahlgruber, Wessels and Matthies. With these products, which exist to this day and continue to flourish, we felt empowered in being a dependable and long-term partner.

From Catalog to Information System

By the end of the 1990’s already, our catalogs entered the process flow of repair shops with their integration of labor times and prices. This was followed in the year 2000 with the inclusion of technical data by HaynesPro (formerly Vivid), as well as additional data suppliers with which we continue to set benchmarks in our sector. Thanks to our continuous development of further integrations, our information systems can depict possible process flows from the spare parts distribution and the parts industry, resulting in a constant expansion of our market leadership with our products.

Growth & Globalization

Since the start of the new millennium, we increasingly open up new international markets and establish additional locations where needed. Over the course of the years, we were able to gain both cooperative as well as independent parts wholesalers and renowned industry customers from the independent aftermarket. Since the founding of our company, the German-speaking market has been our main focus, but we simultaneously make an effort to expand internationally, both on an active and sustainable basis by enlarging our resources, and we would like to continue to accelerate this effort.

Introduction of the TOPMOTIVE Brand

Along with the founding of the Stuttgart sales branch in 2007, TOPMOTIVE is introduced as an umbrella brand under which the companies of the group appear today as a whole. By now, we have developed into Europe’s market leader for catalog and information systems and offer our products and services not only for passenger cars but also for trucks and motorbikes. Every two years we take part in the Automechanika trade fair in Frankfurt and jointly with our partners present what is new in our product development.